· Aldrin Montana

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Education

2018-202X (does anyone really know)

Ph.D., Computer Science; UC, Santa Cruz

Declarative Programmable Storage

Advisors: Peter Alvaro, Josh Stuart

2007-2013

B.S.-M.S., Computer Science; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Clustering for Microbial Source Tracking

Advisor: Alex Dekhtyar

Work Experience

May 2020 - June 2021

Seagate (Fremont, CA); Software Engineer Intern

April 2015 - September 2018

Personalis (Menlo Park, CA); Bioinformatics Analyst/Engineer

Content, Pipeline, and Annotation Team

Software development using primarily bash, python, SQL server, and MySQL.

• Process and load annotation data into internal database systems. Types of annotation data include:
  • Reference assemblies
  • Allele and genotype frequencies
  • Gene to phenotype relationships
  • Small variant to phenotype relationships

• Maintain internal tools for annotating small variants called by internal variant calling pipeline. Internal tools leverage 3rd party tools, such as snpEff.

• Contribute to data management including:
  • data model design
  • stored procedure and query development
  • system architecture
  • develop data reporting system

August 2013 - April 2015

Workday (Pleasanton, CA); Associate Software Development Engineer

OMS Performance - Scalability Engineering Software development using primarily java, bash, MySQL, and hive.

• Handled occasional performance regressions in operations.
• Contributed to testing platform for performance and regression tests.
• Performed some load testing of internal high-volume test tenants using LoadRunner.
• Performed some data analysis of application usage data to help understand and triage performance issues.

Technical Experience

: Experienced Programming Languages

Python, Java, Bash, Perl, C

: Acquainted Programming Languages

Scala, Rust, Javascript

Volunteering

: FASTER-STEAM (October 2017 - Present)

Tech Committee, Mentor

: OutOfOfficeHours (June 2016 - Present)

Mentor

: Code2040 (June 2016 - September 2016)

Mentor

: Dublin HS Engineering & Design Academy (August 2014 - June 2016)

Mentor

Publications

• Jennifer Yen, et al., A variant by any name

• Elo Leung, et al., Protein Sequence Annotation Tool (PSAT)

• Aldrin Montana, et al., Ontological Hierarchical Clustering for Library-Based Microbial Source Tracking

• Alex Dekhtyar, et al., Teaching Bioinformatics in Concert

• Emily Neal, et al., Integrating Molecular Forensics into the Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Curriculum

• Anya Goodman, et al., Pyroprinting: novel pyrosequencing-based method for studying E. coli diversity and microbial source tracking

• Aldrin Montana, Chronology-Sensitive Hierarchical Clustering of Pyrosequenced DNA Samples of E. coli: A Case Study

Posters

• Jan Lorenz Soliman, et al., Microbial Source Tracking by Molecular Fingerprinting (poster)

• Douglas Brandt, et al., Pyroprinting Sensitivity Analysis on the GPU (poster)